[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

image \im"age\ i^m"aslj; 48, n. f., fr. l. imago,
   imaginis, from the root of imitari to imitate. see imitate,
   and cf. imagine.
   1. an imitation, representation, or similitude of any person,
      thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise
      made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a
      copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
      1913 webster

            even like a stony image, cold and numb. --shak.
      1913 webster

            whose is this image and superscription? --matt.
                                                  xxii. 20.
      1913 webster

            this play is the image of a murder done in vienna.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

            and god created man in his own image. --gen. i. 27.
      1913 webster

   2. hence: the likeness of anything to which worship is paid;
      an idol. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . .
            . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them. --ex. xx.
                                                  4, 5.
      1913 webster

   3. show; appearance; cast.
      1913 webster

            the face of things a frightful image bears.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. a representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn
      by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
      1913 webster

            can we conceive
            image of aught delightful, soft, or great? --prior.
      1913 webster

   5. rhet. a picture, example, or illustration, often taken
      from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject;
      usually, an extended metaphor. --brande  c.
      1913 webster

   6. opt. the figure or picture of any object formed at the
      focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the
      several points of the object symmetrically refracted or
      reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may
      be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the
      retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with
      an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the
      likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see
      one's image in a mirror.
      1913 webster

   electrical image. see under electrical.

   image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast.

   image graver, image maker, a sculptor.

   image worship, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry
      distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images
      themselves.

   image purkinje physics, the image of the retinal blood
      vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane.

   virtual image optics, a point or system of points, on one
      side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit
      the system of rays which actually exists on the other side
      of the mirror or lens. --clerk maxwell.
      1913 webster
see also:
imitate imagine electrical image electrical image breaker image graver 
image maker image worship image purkinje virtual image 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

electric \elec"tric\ -ele^k"tri^k, electrical
\elec"trical\ -ele^k"tri^kal, a. l. electrum amber,
   a mixed metal, gr. 'h`lektron; akin to 'hle`ktwr the beaming
   sun, cf. skr. arc to beam, shine: cf. f. 'electrique. the
   name came from the production of electricity by the friction
   of amber.
   1. pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing,
      derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric
      power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an
      electric spark; an electric charge; an electric current;
      an electrical engineer.
      1913 webster

   2. capable of occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as,
      an electric or electrical machine or substance; an
      electric generator.
      1913 webster

   3. electrifying; thrilling; magnetic. "electric pindar."
      --mrs. browning.
      1913 webster

   4. powered by electricity; as, electrical appliances; an
      electric toothbrush; an electric automobile.
      wordnet 1.5

   electric atmosphere, or electric aura. see under aura.
      

   electrical battery. see battery.

   electrical brush. see under brush.

   electric cable. see telegraph cable, under telegraph.
      

   electric candle. see under candle.

   electric cat zo"ol., one of three or more large species
      of african catfish of the genus malapterurus esp. m.
      electricus of the nile. they have a large electrical
      organ and are able to give powerful shocks; -- called also
      sheathfish.

   electric clock. see under clock, and see
      electro-chronograph.

   electric current, a current or stream of electricity
      traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting
      substances, or passing by means of conductors from one
      body to another which is in a different electrical state.
      

   electric eel, or electrical eel zo"ol., a south
      american eel-like fresh-water fish of the genus gymnotus
      g. electricus, from two to five feet in length,
      capable of giving a violent electric shock. see
      gymnotus.

   electrical fish zo"ol., any fish which has an
      electrical organ by means of which it can give an
      electrical shock. the best known kinds are the torpedo,
      the gymnotus, or electrical eel, and the electric
      cat. see torpedo, and gymnotus.

   electric fluid, the supposed matter of electricity;
      lightning. archaic

   electrical image elec., a collection of electrical points
      regarded as forming, by an analogy with optical phenomena,
      an image of certain other electrical points, and used in
      the solution of electrical problems. --sir w. thomson.

   electric machine, or electrical machine, an apparatus for
      generating, collecting, or exciting, electricity, as by
      friction.

   electric motor. see electro-motor, 2.

   electric osmose. physics see under osmose.

   electric pen, a hand pen for making perforated stencils for
      multiplying writings. it has a puncturing needle driven at
      great speed by a very small magneto-electric engine on the
      penhandle.

   electric railway, a railway in which the machinery for
      moving the cars is driven by an electric current.

   electric ray zo"ol., the torpedo.

   electric telegraph. see telegraph.
      1913 webster
see also:
electric atmosphere electric aura aura electrical battery battery electrical brush 
brush electric cable telegraph cable telegraph electric candle 
candle electric cat malapterurus m. electricus sheathfish 
electric clock clock electro-chronograph electric current electric eel 
electrical eel gymnotus g. electricus electrical fish torpedo 
gymnotus electrical eel electric cat torpedo electric fluid 
electrical image electric machine electrical machine electric motor electro-motor 
electric osmose osmose electric pen electric railway electric ray 
electric telegraph 

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